Schedule/Content

Notes:

All required material is from the Lechner and Boli reader unless marked with an asterisk (*), in which case it’s accessible here.

Required material is multimedia – text, video, and audio – some of which is downloadable (e.g., text PDFs or audio MP3s) and some of which is accessible via internet links (e.g., websites and audio/video streams).

Students are not required to read/listen to/view items marked recommended outside of class; however, students ARE responsible for excerpts presented in class (noted in the schedule below).

Recommended (audio-stream): “P.K. 14,” Global Hit, PRI’s The World, 9/08/2010. http://www.theworld.org/2010/09/08/p-k-14/ (Click on “Play” icon on top for radio story; play youtube clip for video of recent live performance in Brooklyn, Power House Arena, 11/9/2009). [excerpt, in-class]

Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org. CC is a nonprofit organization that works to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing.

Copyright Criminals/Independent Lens: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/copyright-criminals/index.html. “Copyright Criminals,” a documentary on the use of musical sampling, asks “Can you own a sound?” and considers the past and – inevitably global— future directions of “remix” culture. Click CLASSROOM tab to view video clips.